Bus Stops is a series based on transit structures scattered in the territory of the former USSR. The Soviet bus stops are among the fetish architectures of the Soviet aesthetics. In fact, those structures could maintain their own autonomy under the regime, allowing architects and artists to freely experiment with one only constraint: to reflect the local culture.
Today, some of those unique transit structures are being repaired but most of them are neglected, abandoned to their fate just like the planet we live on. That’s why we took the opportunity to launch an important environmental message. Without moving away from scientists’ predictions, we imagined a post-apocalyptic futurewhere the sea level has risen so much that the earth is completely flooded. In the midst of this catastrophe, the soviet bus stops, pop out of the water in all their beauty and grandeur, are the clearest symbol of our disengagement: we’ll have kept waiting, doing nothing to make things better, until the world is not livable anymore: Did we miss the last bus? Maybe these bizarre canopies will still be there, providing shelter to survivors.
